Display-holder.



PATENTEDYJAN. 27, 1903.:- R. H. WALK; DISPLAY- HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED ran. 5. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

' lllllllllll lllllllllillflll I I l I l Utiiren drains fia'renrr FFlCEt RUDOLPH H. WALK, OF MIL VAUKEE, TVISOONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDXVABD A. KUMMEL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

DlSPLAY HOLDER.

EiPEGlFIGATION forming part of Letters Tatent No. 719,164, dated January 27, 1903. Application filed February 5, 1902. 'Serial No. 92,714. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: compartment, and adapted to rest at their Be it known that I, RUDOLPH H. WALK, a ends on the ledges 4 4. Each clamp consists citizen of the United States, residing at Milof a rod, band, or wire, of metal or other suitwaukee,in the county ofMilwaukee and State able material, bent into a number of loops 5 of W'isconsin, have invented certain new and opening at opposite ends of the clamp, as useful Improvements in Display-Holders, of shown in Fig. 2. The clamps are preferably which the following is a specification, refermade of spring-wire, which makes the comence being had to the accompanying drawponent loops elastic, whereby they are adaptings, forming a part thereof. ed to open more or less to receive articles of to The main object of this invention is to disvarying thickness and to close tightly upon play hosiery and the like, particularly st-ockthem. The clamps are made to conform in ings, in accessible and convenient condition size and shape with the compartments of the for inspection and removal by single pairs. frame in which they are to beheld and may It consists in certain novel features of conbe formed with any desired number of loops :5 struction and in the arrangement and comand constitute spring-clamping grating-botbinations of parts hereinafter particularly detoms to the compartments, adapted to hold in scribed, and defined in the claims. suspension articles hanging below the com- In the accompanying drawings like characpartments. ters designate the same parts in both figures. The stockings or other articles to be dis- 20 Figure 1 is a vertical section on the line 1 1, played in the holder are drawn into the loops Fig. 2, of a display-holder embodying myiuof the clamps O through the openings at opvention; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. posite ends of the clamps when the latter are The holder in its preferred form is comremoved from the frame. The clamps are posed of a stand A, a frame B, having a nu mthen dropped into place in the compartments 25 her of open bottomed compartments, and 3, so that the bends at the ends of the loops clamps C, reinovably fitted in the compartwill rest upon the ledges 4 4 on opposite sides ments of said frame and each adapted to reof each compartment. The stockings or other ceive and hold a number of pairs of stockings articles are thus suspended either separately or other articles to permit the same to be susor in pairs from the frame and are exposed to 3o pended below the compartments. view on the outside and accessible for inspec- The stand A consists of a base 1 and a vertion below the frame, which may be turned tical post or red 2 of sufficient strength and to bring any particular article within view or length to carry at its upper end the frame B reach. By lifting the clamps, which are sepawith the articles suspended from said frame rately removable from the frame, out of the 35 in the desired position for exhibition and easy compartments therein any particular stockaccess. ing or pair of stockings or other article may The frame B has a number of compartments be readily withdrawn from the clamp with- 3 3, formed by vertical walls or partitions, out displacing others held therein. and each compartment, which is open both at To steady and more firmly support the 0 the top and bottom, is provided at opposite frame B upon the standard, braces 6 may be sides with horizontal ledges 4 a. At the cenprovided, extending downwardly and inter the frame is formed or provided with a wardly from the. frame to a collar 7, loosely vertical box or hearing 5, fitted to turn upon fitted on the post or rod 2, or the same end the upper end of the post or rod 2. The shape may be accomplished by lengthening the box 5 45 and size of the frame and the number, size, or bearing 5.

shape, and arrangement of the compartments Various changes in minor details of contherein may be varied according to the nastruction and arrangement of parts may be ture and quantity of articles to be displayed made within the spirit and intended scope of or other conditions. the invention. ICO

50 The clamps O are loosely fitted in the sev- The term wire as used in the foregoing eral compartments of the frame B, one to each description and in the following claims is intended to include a rod or band of any suitable shape in cross-section for the construction of the clamps O.

I claim 1. A display-holder consisting of a frame having open-bottomed compartments, each of which is provided on opposite sides with horizontal supporting-ledges, and a number of clamps, each consisting of a wire bent into loops, opening alternately at opposite ends of the clamp and resting at the ends of the loops upon the ledges in a compartment of said frame and constituting a spring grating-bottom to the compartments adapted to hold in suspension articles hanging below the compartments, substantially as described.

2. A display-holder consisting of a frame having a number of open-bottomed compartments, each of which is provided on opposite sides with horizontal ledges, clamps each consisting of Wire bent into loops, opening alternately at opposite ends of the clamp and adapted to rest at the ends of the loops upon the ledges in a compartmentof said frame and constituting a spring grating-bottom to the compartments adapted to hold in suspension articles hanging below the compartments, and a stand upon which said frame is mounted and adapted to turn, substantially as described.

3. A display-holder consisting of a horizontal frame adapted to turn on a vertical axis and having a number of open-bottomed compartments each of which is provided on opposite sides with horizontal ledges, and a n umber of clamps removably fitted in said compartments and adapted to rest at the ends upon said ledges, each clamp consisting of a Wire bent into loops opening alternately at opposite ends of the clamp and constituting a spring grating-bottom to the compartments adapted to hold in suspension articles hanging below the compartments, substantially as described.

4. A display-holder consisting of a frame having a number of open-bottomed compartments each of which is provided on opposite sides with ledges, and a number of elastic clamps each composed of a series of springloops opening alternately at opposite ends of the clamp and engaging with the ledges of the compartments to constitute a spring gratingbottom to the compartments adapted to hold in suspension articles hanging below the compartments, substantially as described.

5. A display-holder consisting of a horizon tally-disposed frame divided by vertical partitions into a number of compartments each of which is open at the top and bottom and provided on opposite sides with horizontal ledges, and a number of separately-removable clamps loosely fitted in said compartments and each composed of a series of loops opening alternately at opposite ends of the clamp and constituting a spring grating-bottom to the compartments adapted to hold in suspension articles hanging below the compartments, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I hereto aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

RUDOLPH H. WVALK.

Witnesses:

ELINOR V. WRIGHT,

)HAs. L. Goss. 

